That's how I feel too, plus if I pill them and they do manage to spit it out, I have to do it again with a slobbery pill. I wonder what else might work that would be better for her than cream cheese, not peanut butter obviously, hmm, well there is low fat cream cheese, or low fat ricotta cheese maybe?

Muttkip wrote:Ever tried the stuff in mouth, hold muzzle gently shut, lift the head back and stroke her throat? I do it with Beau every night when I give him his garlic pill and I've been doing it for years with no problems. I don't see the need to have to hide pills when you can just get it over with quickly without much fuss.

Uh, yeah. No thanks.

Even if she was only getting one pill and it was temporary I wouldn't force her. I'd rather make it a pleasant experience seeing as she's on a half dozen meds two-three times per day.

We do this with Bailey It doesn't feel like we're forcing her because we're not man handling her or being rough. She's a champ at it, and otherwise we wouldn't get her to take the pills...no matter what we put them in, she'll spit the pill back out. Trooper however, sometimes we can trick into just eating the pill-especially if we toss it to him. Otherwise he usually has it hidden in some thing.